Pricing FAQ

What makes SEO-Cart different from the rest?

Customer support, flexibility, and expertise. There are many other shopping carts available, but with SEO-Cart, you are getting a complete e-commerce solution to increase your online presence and successfully sell your products online. With SEO-Cart, you get way more than the basics that other shopping carts have to offer. Since 2003, we have been successfully helping all types of businesses around the world with their e-commerce and website solutions. Click or call now to discuss your project with us directly. We'll help you get things configured properly for how you want to sell.

Do you have transaction fees?

No. Unlike some other carts, you pay us the same if you sell 50 items a month or 50,000 items. Note that your payment processor (PayPal, Authorize.NET, etc.) will likely charge you a fee. SEO-Cart does not force you to use a particular payment processing system. We give you the option to shop for the best payment processor for you. Some options cost nothing monthly and simply take a 1% to 3% transaction fee per order. Some even give you a credit card swiper that plugs in to your computer or phone. You can switch your payment processor at any time. View all supported payment processors or talk to us for suggestions.

Is there an activation or setup fee?

No. If you use our integrated template, you can login and easily customize it yourself for free. If you would like to use an existing template or want a brand new template created for you, talk to us.

What does it "really" cost to sell online?

Truth in E-Commerce Pricing

Nobody likes hidden, unexpected fees. We try our best to be completely upfront about all of our costs ahead of time. Some companies say they are upfront, but then they don't actually give you the information. Here's a breakdown of all common fees you'll need to sell online, no matter who you sell with.

Service

Common Practice

What We Offer

Website design and initial setup

Most carts offer premade, limited customizable templates of all prices and complexity.

Many other carts will not personally customize your website, convert from an existing website, or create a brand new look just for you.

SEO-Cart has nice free premade templates with limited customization. These templates are mobile ready and responsive to load quickly and look sharp on all devices.

Create a brand new website - typically $499 and up depending on website complexity (quote provided upon request). We work with you one-on-one until you're happy with the result.

Future website updates when your store is already online

Some carts outsource these updates to unaffiliated developers. This can be highly unreliable in the long-term.

Some carts charge $100/hourly with a 2 hour minimum. Even a small, simple update could cost $200! Make sure you know this ahead of time.

Free support - we will show you how to do the update yourself, if possible, for no cost.

For website maintenance updates, we charge $50/hour, billed in 15 minute increments (so a 15 minute update is only $12.50). Custom programming is $75/hour. We always provide quotes and get your approval before doing any work.

Software usage, updates, and support

Some carts limit features based on plan and charge you extra for priority support.

Some carts charge you to update to their latest version.

All features are included in all SEO-Cart plans. And our support team is readily available to help you if you have an issue, regardless of which plan you fall under.

We update our software regularly. You will always be using the latest version SEO-Cart.

Website hosting, backups, and security

Some carts require you to have your own servers and handle updates, security, and backups yourself.

Some carts outsource their hosting to other companies. Not only will you be relying on yet another company to run your business, but more people will then have direct access to you and your customers' personal data.

Some carts will host your site for an extra fee.

SEO-Cart is a fully-hosted, in-house solution. You don't have to pay anything extra. And the amount of people with access to your data is absolutely limited as much as possible without disrupting business and support operations.

Personal hosting, backups, security, support, live monitoring, and unlimited software updates are included with all SEO-Cart plans.

Extra bandwidth (monthly data transfer) and data storage

Some carts make their overage charges extremely difficult to find, then bill you an outrageous amount if you exceed limits. Make sure you know this amount ahead of time.

Some carts do offer "unlimited" storage and bandwidth. We think it's a bit of a marketing ploy, as a vast majority of websites don't use much data. Unlimited data plans seem to correlate with limited feature sets.

Our average client has just over 1000 products, uses just 14 GB of monthly bandwidth (data transfer), and consumes about 1 GB of data storage. Most never exceed their plan limits. Regardless, we make sure our overage fees are among the fairest you will find.

We offer additional monthly bandwidth for $2/month per Gigabyte.

We offer additional disk space for $10/month per Gigabyte.

Website domain name

Most carts let you use your own domain or let you buy one through them. Domains are cheap (usually $10-20 per year).

Some carts use a free "shared" domain for your website. You don't have to pay for it, but it's also not truly your domain and you could lose it at any time.

If you already own a domain name, you can use it with SEO-Cart. This costs you nothing extra and we'll help you configure it.

You can purchase your own SSL certificate, but you will have to remember to renew it yearly and upload your SSL files to SEO-Cart.

Each SEO-Cart account comes with a 2048-bit SSL security on their own live domain name. We consciously choose to not offer a shared SSL through a single shopping cart checkout URL.

Payment processing fees

Some carts have your store's checkout process on another website. This looks highly unprofessional to your customers and they may wonder if they are being scammed, leading to potential cart abandonment.

Some carts make you use their internal payment processing system. You are locked into whatever rates they offer, and they get a percentage of every order placed on your website.

SEO-Cart works with a wide range of payment processing gateways, letting you choose which is best for you. Some gateways have no monthly fees and only charge you by the transaction. Some give you a credit card swiper that plugs in to your computer or phone. Talk to us about it.

We do not charge you any transaction fees for orders from your customers.